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Bertrand Russell Quotes
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~ Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should ~
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~ Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form. ~
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~ Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ~
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~ All human activity is prompted by desire. ~
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~ Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know. ~
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~ Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent ~
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~ The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. ~
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~ Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. ~
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~ The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. ~
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~ This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind ~
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~ Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. ~
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~ What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. ~
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~ The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. ~
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~ The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment ~
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~ Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact ~
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